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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: homo fabula -- Part I Architecture of stories -- 1 Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé -- 2 The fabulous ox in Fengshui's fabrication of site -- 3 The "uncharted tides:" a literary map of Saint Petersburg -- 4 Macaronically speaking -- 5 Il Mantecato: an architectural course served at the Frascaridonosor's Tavern of Crossed Destinies -- Part II Stories of architecture -- 6 Buildings remember -- 7 Object talks: confabulation of dwelling space in the texts of Kamo no Chōmei and Wajirō Kon -- 8 Suspended ceiling stories: navigating the cosmo-technologies of hospital ceilings -- 9 Saul Steinberg's stories of dor -- 10 The enlightening radiance of shadows -- 11 Architecture sub rosa: another tell-tale detail, with confabulations and digressions -- Part III Stories of theory -- 12 Language and architectural meaning -- 13 Walls of gender -- 14 Architecture's two bodies -- 15 Camillo Sitte's winged snail: festina lente and escargot -- 16 Strange tales of architectural evolution -- 17 Dialetti architettonici: storytelling in the vernacular -- 18 Miming a manner of architectural theory: Eudaimonia-A Pantomime Dream Play -- Part IV Practice of stories -- 19 Linear stories in Carlo Scarpa's architectural drawings -- 20 In medias res: Michelangelo's mural drawings at San Lorenzo -- 21 The function of fiction in fabrication: Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, the Italian confabulator -- 22 The Laughing Girls -- 23 Mi punge vagezza, ovvero i misteri del mestiere -- 24 Confabulatores Nocturni -- Index -- Plates